Fani Ziozia was born in Trikala, Greece in 1956. She studied economics at University of Economics of Athens and then film studies at Hellenic Cinema & Television School Stavrakos. Later she returned at the Stavrakos film school as a teacher at editing. She was production manager at the Greek Film Center from 2002. As an editor she had worked with the biggest names in Greek cinema such as: Theo Angelopoulos, Nikos Koundouros, Michael Cacoyannis and Pantelis Voulgaris.